Dustin Hoffman Movies

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Want to know the best Dustin Hoffman movies?  How about the worst Dustin Hoffman movies?  Curious about Dustin Hoffman’s box office grosses or which Dustin Hoffman movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Dustin Hoffman movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information right here.

Dustin Hoffman (1937-) has been a movie star longer than I have been alive. That is a pretty impressive accomplishment especially when you consider that I was born in the 1960s. Over his close to fifty year movie career he has had great success both at the box office and critical acclaim.

His IMDb page shows 76 acting credits since 1961.  This page will rank 52 of his movies from Best to Worst in four different sortable columns of information. Cameos, television appearances, straight to DVD movies and shorts were not included in the rankings.

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in 1967's The Graduate
Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in 1967’s The Graduate

Dustin Hoffman Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Dustin Hoffman Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Dustin Hoffman movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Dustin Hoffman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Dustin Hoffman movies by domestic yearly box office rank
  • Sort Dustin Hoffman movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Dustin Hoffman movie received.
  • Sort Dustin Hoffman movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR)Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Dustin Hoffman Table

  1. Twenty of Dustin Hoffman’s movies crossed the magical $100 million mark.  That is a percentage of 38.46% of his movies listed.
  2. An average Dustin Hoffman movie grosses $126.90 million in adjusted box office gross….his voice roles were excluded from the averages.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  35 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies are rated as good movies…or 67.30% of his movies.
  4. 21 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 40.38% of his movies.
  5. 9 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 17.30% of his movies.
  6. A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00.  26 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies scored higher that average….or 50.00% of his movies.
  7. Dustin Hoffman has starred in 8 movies that have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar®…including 3 that wo n the Best Picture Oscar®: 1967’s The Graduate, 1969’s Midnight Cowboy it won, 1974’s Lenny, 1976’s All the President’s Men, 1979’s Kramer vs Kramer it won, 1982’s Tootsie, and 1988’s Rain Man it won.
Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in 1988's Rain Man
Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in 1988’s Rain Man

Possibly Interesting Facts About Dustin Hoffman

1. I am sure you know that Dustin Hoffman’s star making role was 1967’s The Graduate. But did you know he was already 30 years old when he played that part, and Anne Bancroft who played Mrs. Robinson was only 36?

2. Over his 45 year carerr, Dustin Hoffman has received 7 Academy Award® nominations (2 wins)….Kramer vs Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988). He has 9 Golden Globe® nominations (4 wins) for acting in movies.

3. In the 1980s, Dustin Hoffman only appeared in 4 movies. In 1982 he appeared in one of the biggest comedies ever…Tootsie. Then appeared in one of the biggest box office bombs ever….1987’s Ishtar. He rebounded in 1988 with his second Academy Award® for Best Actor in Rain Man. And finally he appeared in 1989’s Family Business.

4. Dustin Hoffman has been married twice. His first marriage was to Anne Byrne, it lasted from 1969 to 1980 and produced daughters Karina and Jenna. His second marriage is to Lisa Gottsegen, they were married in 1980 – they have four children, sons Jacob and Maxwell and daughters, Rebecca and Alexandra.

5. Dustin Hoffman is the only actor to have leading roles in three Academy Award® Best Picture winning movies Those movies are 1969’s Midnight Cowboy, 1979’s Kramer vs Kramer and 1988’s Rain Man.

6. When Dustin Hoffman was a struggling actor, his roommate was none other than two time Oscar® winner Gene Hackman. It took them almost 40 years but they finally appeared together in one of Hackman’s last movies….2003’s Runaway Jury.

7. Roles Dustin Hoffman either turned down or was seriously considered for…..Blade Runner, Batman Returns(Penguin part), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gandhi, Get Shorty, The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Blade Runner, Misery, Superman (Lex Luther role) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

8. In the 1960s Dustin Hoffman used to “chase women” with Ben Affleck’s father, Tim Affleck.

9. Dustin Hoffman directed his first movie in 2013…..Quartet.

10. Check out Dustin Hoffman’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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83 thoughts on “Dustin Hoffman Movies”

  1. I am surprised that Isthar is not all the way down at the bottom. I saw about 20 minutes of that train wreck. It is amazing how that has faded over time. Back in the 80s it was always talked about how bad a bomb it was.

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    1. Hey Shaun…..well I remember Ishtar….it crashed and burned…..I actually thought it was ok…it seems like it played on HBO many times back in the late 1980s….they were trying for a Bing Crosby/Bob Hope…Road to…movie…it did not work…but I thought it had some funny moments in the movie…thanks for the input.

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  2. Perfume? Perfume? I seem to remember a movie called Perfume, was it a period piece?

    You missed a classic bit of Hoffman trivia, when he appeared tired and dishevelled on set in Marathon Man, he confessed that he had avoided sleep for a few days to prepare for the scene. Laurence Olivier rolled his eyes shook his head and said “Why don’t you try acting dear boy?” 🙂

    Btw I voted for Bill Holden.

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    1. Hey Steve…Perfume-The Story of a Murderer…Hoffman played a perfume creator who takes in a serial killer…it is a depressing story with gruesome acts of violence….and it was ignored in the states….but looks like it was very very popular around the world.

      Nice story about Hoffman and Olivier…I had not heard that one before…thanks for sharing.

      As for your vote…we are coming down to the wire…and it is nose to nose….between Holden and Bergman….Holden is like a horse that can never win its maiden race….but always finishes in the money.

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  3. Well, my stupid, sorry, parasitic sacks of entrails… revenge is mine!

    Long live the Hook!

    I thought you’d already done a Dustin Hoffman hub Cogerson and I had replied already. I thought wrong.

    Good actor, I wasn’t a fan until I saw Marathon Man, a classic 70’s thriller with the great Laurence Olivier as a mad dentist, no wait he was a Nazi war criminal. Steve Martin was the mad dentist. 🙂

    I’ve never seen Kramer vs Kramer, I’ve successfully avoided it all these years. I did see King Kong vs Godzilla, great fun it was too.

    I’ve seen 26 of Dustin’s films Cogers, so you beat me there.

    The last film of his I really liked was Outbreak (1995) about a lethal virus. I’d like to get that on Blu-ray. Sphere was good too, based on a Michael Crichton novel about an alien spaceship found in the Pacific Ocean.

    Rain Man I have on DVD, but I haven’t watched it in ages, not a favourite.

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    1. Hey Steve…thanks for checking out my Hoffman page. I agree about Marathon Man….I watched it with my 19 year old a couple of months ago….he thought it was boring and could not understand …”why all the fuss”….he thinks Steve Martin in Little Shop is a meaner dentist…I just do not understand today’s youth….lol.

      26 movies is over half of his career. Outbreak seems to be getting lots of attention these days with the success of Contagion at the box office. Wow I am surprised that not only you but Flora have avoided Kramer vs Kramer…it is a Oscar winner for Best Picture…as well as Oscars for Hoffman and Streep……. You have Rain Man on DVD….does not Tom Cruise star in that movie…I am confused….lol.

      The interesting stat that I did not include….Hoffman’s Perfume(that does not sound like a movie) earned about 3 million in the USA, but it earned close to 140 million in worldwide box office….did England go crazy over Perfume? Thanks for the comments…you are the man.

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  4. I actually I have not seen many of his older movies, but I have seen lots of his movies from the last twenty years or so. I agree Finding Neverland is a great movie. I thought Perfume was horrible though. Voted up and interesting.

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  5. LOVED YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR DAD. RAIN MAN, ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN AND TOOTSIE WERE WONDERFUL MOVIES. I HAVE SEEN MOST OF THE MOVIES LISTED BUT NOT ALL. HE IS A VERY GOOD ACTOR. I ENJOYED READING ALL THE PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDED. keep up the good work Cogerson.

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    1. Thanks for the compliment BERN1960….you are welcome for the personal information and for sharing some of Dad’s experiences at the Post…thanks for stopping by

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